Man, it does appear that the stoppage was early with hindsight. But I must say, if I was the ref in there, I probably would have jumped in too...that shook me it was so nasty looking. Square on the face and it dropped him like nothing. Wow! I honestly can't blame the ref.

Now that I see the replay, I can kind of see why he stopped it. Brenneman was dazed getting up and looked like he caught himself on the fence, and couldn't even manage to block the kick properly. He sees it coming because he tucked his chin in a little, but one hand was busy holding him up against the cage.

Man, it does appear that the stoppage was early with hindsight. But I must say, if I was the ref in there, I probably would have jumped in too...that shook me it was so nasty looking. Square on the face and it dropped him like nothing. Wow! I honestly can't blame the ref.

I feel Refs shouldn't act on the strike but what effect it has on the fighter and Mario didn't do that.

I agree. But of the many early stoppages we have seen, this is one I can most understand just because of the way it looked from the ref's angle. Looked like a Sean Salmon frankenstein fall until he hit the mat eyes open and ready to defend and by that time Mario had jumped in. I thought the Roller stoppage was worse.

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